for details on solving the problems see the following chapter "Special notes on some distributions"
gpm: freezy mouse under XFree86. With current XFree86 you are losing VGA virtual consoles any way
Recommended disable.
RedHat 8.0/ 9, SuSE 8.1 - /bin/sysfont:
You can use redhat 7.3 consolechars instead.
SuSE 8.1 - /etc/init.d/hwscan:
recommended disable, if you have to install new hardware and want to use it
boot with standard kernel and start it manually